As far as this year's celebration is concerned, the food is ordered, the
stickers are "on", the buttons for the presenters may not happen, and the table
tents/banners for advertising will not happen due to "overbooking" of
these media types by other events. However, advertising will occur by 1) posters
designed by the communication studies students and 2) an e-mail to faculty and
students from Anne via Steve Stach.

On Friday, there will be 8 oral presentation sessions, four from 10-1145 and
four from 1215-2. Rick will be soliciting help from the URC to moderate these
sessions. Presenters can "practice" their talks Thursday from 3-6 in Port o'
Call or room 326. Poster set-up will begin Friday morning at 9 and the poster
session will run from 10-2.

For next Monday's meeting, committee members are asked to read through the
proposals and to use the evaluation/scoring/comment sheets to take notes to
prepare for the discussion of each proposal next week. These comment sheets will
be turned in to Bill when the evaluation process is completed but will not
actually be seen by the students. However, Bill asks that we not simply make
general statements about the proposals such as "This was great!" since the
comments will be used by Bill to answer questions that students may have about
how their proposals were evaluated and specific detailed comments would be more
useful.

Our budget for next year should allow us to fund approximately $35-40K worth
of grant proposals.

Keep in mind that next Monday's meeting begins at 5:30 and ends when we are
finished with all of the proposals. Last year it took 3-1/2 hours to discuss
about 40 grants and this year there are 54.